Tartar's Ferry Bridge

	Tarter's Ferry Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	2012 view of the abandoned bridge, facing west
Location	Fulton County, Illinois
Nearest city	Smithfield
Coordinates	40°28′23″N 90°17′34″W / 40.47306°N 90.29278°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	ca. 1880
Architectural style	Pin connected Parker through truss
MPS	MPL011 - Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County Thematic Resources
NRHP reference No.	80001363
Added to NRHP	October 29, 1980

Tarter's Ferry Bridge was one of nine metal highway bridges in Fulton County, Illinois listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This particular one was a 9-panel Parker through truss that carried Tarter Ferry Road over the Spoon River near Smithfield, Illinois.^[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1980, along with the eight other bridges, as one of the "Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County.^[1] The bridge was one of three in Smithfield listed on the Register, the others are the Bernadotte Bridge and the destroyed Buckeye Bridge, as well as the demolished Elrod Bridge. Others, such as the Duncan Mills Bridge in Lewistown, are located throughout the county.

The bridge was washed off its substructure during a flood in the spring of 2013. It had been abandoned for many years.

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